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...this reason there is much concern over the low numbers of minorities nationally who are registered with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP...
...Look at the plight of this one man; there are many more like him who could use your support." Organizers could have highlighted the dismal fact that only 3,000,000 people-barely more than one percent of the U.S. population-are registered in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). (By contrast, over two-and-a-half percent of Asian Americans, or 200,000 Asians, are registered in the NMDP.) Organizers could have actively encouraged every able-bodied member of the Harvard community to register their tissue type. But they didn...
...utmost praise for scrambling to organize the two-day event during the hectic start of the school year. The drive would not even have materialized without their initiative and hard work. And their vigorous recruitment and promotion attracted 580 individuals, 85 percent of them Asian, to register in the NMDP-numbers well beyond anyone's highest expectations...
Helen S. Ng, who works on Asian-American donors for the Minnesota-based NMDP, said bone-marrow drives around the country have significantly increased registration in the past few months...
Katosha L. Belvin, media coordinator for the NMDP, said there is good reason for the emphasis on minority registration...